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Ecowas leaders to slap gradual sanctions on Guinea's junta

A sun-glasses seller walks past a billboard poster of Guinea junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya in Conakry. AFP - JOHN WESSELS

West African leaders have agreed to impose gradual sanctions on Guinea-Conakry's military junta over its inflexibility on setting a date to return to civilian rule.

At an emergency summit on the sidelines of the annual UN meeting in New York, leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) said it would "take sanctions against Guinea".

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